KPFA/Ann Garrison: Human Rights Watch reported that at least 18 people were shot dead and 100 wounded in the Democratic Republic of Congo's pre-election violence in the final days of the campaign, between November 26th and November 28th. The majority of those killed, they reported, were shot dead by President Kabila's Republican Guard in Congo's capital and largest city Kinshasa, which has a population of roughly 10 million. The electoral commission is stacked with sitting President Joseph Kabila's allies and EU observers have reported voting irregularities at over 70% of polling stations. Leading opposition candidate Étienne Tshisekedi has said that he will accept only a credible result, and urged his supporters to take to the streets if the result announced on Tuesday is not credible.

On November 12th, a day after Tshisekedi made a particularly defiant statement, International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo warned that the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction in Congo. However, Moreno Ocampo has not yet made a public statement regarding Kabila's military police shooting civilians.

Eric Kamba: Laurent Gbagbo is now on trial at the International Criminal Court, facing four charges of crimes against humanity committed by his camp as recently as between December 2010 and April 2011, since he refused to concede victory to his contender in November 2010 presidential election. The same charges are going to be made against Mr. Étienne Tshisekedi, the winner of the presidential election in Congo if he contests the election that he thinks and all the Congolese think is being stolen by Mr. Kabila with the help of the international community.

Congo's election results are scheduled to be announced on Tuesday. On the ground reporters for the Times of South Africa wrote today that the country is on a knife edge, and, that there is an uneasy quiet in Kinshasa as the city braces for impending bloodshed.

Reuters video of Ivory Coast's former president, Laurent Gbagbo, being delivered to a detention unit of the International Criminal Court in the Hague after his arrest, on the court's international warrant, on 11.30.2011:

Correction: ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo seems to have made his statement, that the ICC has jurisdiction in the Hague, and that it is monitoring election violence in Congo, on November 11th rather than 12th. The difference between the two days, however, makes no difference to his statement's meaning in relation to other events.